Social Media overload? Try FriendFeed with Alert Thingy

By 04.14.2008 :: 4:20PM EDT04.14.2008

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If you’ve found yourself buried under Twitter messages (tweets), Facebook statuses, Flickr images, Delicious links, Tumblr posts and/or whatever other social data you can muster, then please allow me to promptly direct you toward the very excellent FriendFeed. The service aggregates social media info from your friends into one streamlined feed.

The irony is that this does create one further thing to follow (even if it’s a streamlined thing). Alert Thingy, which launched today, uses the new FriendFeed API to create an Adobe Air-based desktop app. So now when using FriendFeed, you don’t even have to visit the site. Your friends’ data is simply poured directly onto your desktop for quick-and-dirty indexing.

It’s not without bugs considering it just launched today, and there are a few features that I’d like to see. Namely, it’d be really nice if it didn’t blink in task bar — this is distinctly distracting. It’d also be nice if there were some options rolled into it to update status data, perhaps the ability to update Twitter, for instance.

I’m sure though that given some time, Alert Thingy creator Howard Baines will work out all the kinks and have himself a sweet little app that makes the world of super social media users just a little bit easier to live in.